Just stick .ml with hexbear and grad on your blocklist and move on.

Because it doesn’t have $100s of millions to throw at marketing, or the name dropping of Twitter creators behind it.

It is what it is. You can either be alright with being small, or hurl money into it, but the people who hurl money into things tend to want it back at some point, and that means becoming a shitty business.

We trusted corporations.

I’d like to think we’ve collectively learned our lessons, but watching people migrate from Reddit to fucking Discord makes me think that we really have not and probably never will.

Probably because nobody was using it.

307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

Because they’d heard of them.

The power of the fediverse is nothing next to the power of the normieverse and a couple of billion dollars in advertising money.

I suspect you need access to the database.

Looking at the source, “comment_like” seems to be where they’re stored.

Was it midwest.social by any chance?

I’m not sure it would. If my instance knows who up and downvoted a post, then they can work it out on the fly per post without even needing to tell me who did what.

Personally I’m not even in favour of the simple up/downvote system. Everyone uses it differently. “I disagree with you but thanks for being civil” can be up or down depending on who you are.

Sure, but I think we can go further.

Filter the votes I see based on which users or instances I’ve blocked. I’ve blocked them for a reason.

I think ideally a Lemmy client could connect to a number of instances, and you could add the more contentious ones yourself.

Some of these places are literally hosting child porn. You don’t want that mirrored to a server that you’re responsible for.

Doesn’t block their users though, only their communities.

Everyone should defederate from .ml, and most have already got rid of hexbear and lemmygrad.

It’s an absolute shit show of an instance, and the rest of us don’t want to be subject to their nonsense.

I just wish the instance block prevented me from seeing their users as well.

“Any community that gets its kicks pretending to be idiots, will eventually be overtaken by actual idiots who believe they are in good company.”

Only if the sender signed it. I presume the system does that anyway so you can be sure who sent something.

It could be sent plaintext as long as the senders signature was intact.

Or just send them the message in plain text, since you’re showing it to somebody else anyway.

But I think the issue is there’s no way for your instance to stop you getting the spam as they’ve no idea what it is until you unlock it.

I guess the best they could do is block messages from a certain user/instance but since you can generate as many accounts as you want, it’s hard to tell how effective that could be.

Yeah, it would be nice to not end up like Reddit, where every day brought a new crypto scam my way.

I’m not convinced Lemmy-style Federation lends itself well to the Discord model.

Like, you could have individual servers running (or maybe a server that hosts many communities), and a client that connects to all your subscribed ones, but I don’t think there’s a lot of value in sharing that data out across many servers, or somehow mangling real-time voice into that model.

Just have it default to one of them. A simple priority order, preferring an account on the host instance I guess.

Same for commenting, and posting. You wouldn’t have to select another account unless you really wanted to.

A lot of people are saying “just connect to another instance”, but it would be nice if the client could connect to multiple instances at once, and merge things internally, maybe even spreading the load a bit.

Probably a bit tricky for the web and linking, but maybe something for the mobile apps to consider?

Ideally the only time I’d need to swap accounts is to post.